Summary
Miro Gavran: The Dream Professor
Miro Gavran published a new novel for children and young people after a ten-year hiatus - "The Dream Professor". It is a humorous story about falling in love and discovering the secrets of love and the mistakes that can be made in love relationships. The novel tells the story of a boy, an eighth-grade student, who falls in love with his teacher...
Miro Gavran was born in 1961 into a teacher's family in the Slavonian village of Gornja Trnava, not far from Nova Gradiška. He graduated in dramaturgy at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. He writes plays, novels, film scripts and books for young people. His works have been translated into as many as 38 languages, and his books have seen more than 200 editions in the country and abroad. Based on his plays and comedies, more than 300 theatrical premieres were created around the world, and more than three million people saw them. He received about twenty literary and theater awards in the country and abroad, among them the Central European Time Award, for the best Central European writer of the year, which was awarded to him in Budapest, and the European Circle Award for the promotion of European values in his literary work.
His theatrical and prose texts have been included in numerous anthologies and anthologies in the country and abroad, and his work is studied at universities around the world. In 2003, the "Gavranfest" festival was started in Slovakia, where only his plays and comedies are performed, so he is one of the few living writers in Europe who have their own festival. He lives and works as a professional writer in Zagreb.
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